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PROTECTION OF TRADE ROUTES SUBMARINE MENACE NOT FEARED BY BRITAIN. ASSURANCE BY DEFENCE MINISTER. (Independent Cable Service.) LONDON, March 31. The Defence Minister, Lord Chatfield, in a speech to the Chamber of Shipping today, outlined the steps taken to ensure British trade routes in wartime. He said that Britain had already found a measure to deal with submarines, but, till war came, he could not tell if the measures against air attack were adequate. “We have a surprise for those who expect to inflict a vital blow at our arteries,” he added. The President of the Board of Trade, Mr Oliver Stanley, speaking on the same occasion, warned the powers who thought Britain was decadent. “If the call comes,” he said, “we will answer it, not with the shouts and clamour of a facile mob easily aroused and easily dissolved, but with conviction, hope and anger, which will last to the end.”
The Duke of Kent said that the shipping industry would get renewed confidence in the future from the Government’s new measures for assistance.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1939, Page 7
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178SURPRISE IN STORE Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1939, Page 7
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